{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/section-6A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/section-6A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/52",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996",
  "path": "section/6A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6A",
  "heading": "Voluntary undertakings",
  "text": "(1) A registered social landlord may give the Welsh Ministers an undertaking in respect of any matter concerning housing.\n(2) The Welsh Ministers may prescribe a procedure to be followed in giving an undertaking.\n(3) The Welsh Ministers must have regard to any undertaking offered or given in exercising a regulatory or enforcement power.\n(4) The Welsh Ministers may base a decision about whether to exercise a regulatory or enforcement power wholly or partly on the extent to which an undertaking has been honoured.\n(5) In this section, “regulatory or enforcement power” means a power exercisable under any of the following provisions—\nsection 35,\nsection 37,\nsection 38,\nChapter 4A of this Part,\nparagraphs 4 and 6 to 15H of Part 2 of Schedule 1,\nPart 3A of Schedule 1,\nPart 4 of Schedule 1.\n(6) This section does not apply in relation to a registered social landlord's provision of housing in England.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 6A and cross-heading inserted (18.10.2011) by Housing (Wales) Measure 2011 (nawm 5), ss. 41, 90(2); S.I. 2011/2475, arts. 1(2), 2(f)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/52/section/6A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:46.595645+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}